Photos: huge snowstorm hits east coast of Canada and the U.S. (updated)

John Minchillo, AP photo02.09.2013

A motorist clears snow from his car on 59th Street, Friday, Feb. 8, 2013, in New York. Snow began falling across the Northeast on Friday, ushering in what was predicted to be a huge, possibly historic blizzard and sending residents scurrying to stock up on food and gas up their cars.

John Minchillo
/ AP photo

A man walks through a driving snow as snow arrives in the Back Bay neighborhood on February 8, 2013 in Boston, Mass. Massachusetts as well as other states from New York to Maine are hunkered down for a major blizzard with possible record amounts of snowfall in some areas.Mario Tama
/ Getty Images

Louie Rodriguez of the New Bedford Forestry Department cuts a fallen tree at the intersection of Rotch St. and Maple St. in New Bedford, Mass., on Friday, Feb. 8, 2013, after heavy snow and winds from a storm. Snow began falling across the Northeast on Friday, ushering in what was predicted to be a huge, possibly historic blizzard and sending residents scurrying to stock up on food and gas up their cars. The storm could dump 1 to 3 feet of snow from New York City to Boston and beyond.Peter Pereira
/ AP Photo/Standard Times

Emmit Green clears snow from his driveway in Saginaw Friday morning, Feb. 8, 2013 so he can get to work after a winter storm dumped more than six inches of powdery snow on Saginaw overnight.Jeff Schrier
/ AP Photo/The Saginaw News

NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 08: A man walks across the Brooklyn Bridge in the snow and sleet in the early hours of a major winter storm on February 8, 2013 in New York City. New York City and much of the Northeast is expected to get a foot or more of snow through Saturday afternoon with possible record-setting blizzard conditions expected in Boston, Massachusetts. Heavy snow warnings are in effect from New Jersey through southern Maine. (Photo bySpencer Platt
/ Getty Images

A truck tries to get past a trailer that was left by the side of the road during a snowstorm in Toronto on Friday, Feb. 8, 2013.Frank Gunn
/ The Canadian Press

A woman braves the weather Friday morning during a winter storm that could dump up to 25 centimetres of snow on Ottawa.JULIE OLIVER
/ OTTAWA CITIZEN

Pedestrians walk along a snow-covered street in downtown Toronto on Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. Environment Canada says a snowstorm, which began bearing down on the province Thursday, will leave a large swath painted white by tonight. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Richard Plume

Not too much trouble when this photo was taken, but a Boston highway sign warns of imminent traffic chaos as a winter storm loomed over the city on February 8, 2013.Elise Amendola
/ AP Photo

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012 file photo, snow is cleared on a runway as a plane taxis into Manchester-Boston Regional Airport in Manchester, N.H. As the Northeast braces for its largest winter storm in more than a year, airlines are already employing a strategy that has served them well in recent years: Cancel flights early and keep planes, crews and passengers away from snowed-in airports. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

Pedestrians cross a snow-covered street in Toronto on Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn

Pedestrians walk along a snow-covered street in downtown Toronto on Friday, Feb. 8, 2013.Richard Plume
/ The Canadian Press

Snow covered cars line a street near Eastern Avenue in Toronto as the city continues to receive more snowfall, Friday February 8, 2013.Peter J. Thompson
/ National Post

Steve MacGillivray cleans off his vehicle in the old port of Montreal, before driving to work, on February 8, 2013.Natasha Fillion
/ Montreal Gazette

Traffic moved slowly as the road surface of South Michigan near Vermont was snow-covered in Saginaw Friday morning, Feb. 8, 2013 in Saginaw, Mich.Jeff Schrier
/ AP Photo/The Saginaw News

Two double decker and one regular OC Transpo buses going south on Eagleson Road during a major snow storm during the morning commute near the OC Transpo Park & Ride on Eagleson Road in Ottawa, Ontario, February 8, 2013.Garth Gullekson
/ The Ottawa Citizen

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